Marc Jones, VP Product Innovation at SoftLayer, provides insights on what it takes to build a high-performance public cloud computing environment that meets the demands of big data.

Marc is a technology industry veteran and has spent the last three and a half years at SoftLayer. He is currently a member of the leadership team responsible for developing and managing the product strategy and roadmap, requirements and software development for the cloud computing portfolio. In this podcast, Marc discusses:

- Overcoming performance barriers in public clouds

- Bare metal, virtualized and hybrid compute options

- Benchmarking Mongo DB

- Bare metal versus virtualized servers

- Raw performance versus consistency of performance

- Much more!

Listen now for great insights on building a high-performance public cloud environment for big data!